US5750224A - Plastic container - Google Patents
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
- B65D1/00—Containers having bodies formed in one piece, e.g. by casting metallic material, by moulding plastics, by blowing vitreous material, by throwing ceramic material, by moulding pulped fibrous material, by deep-drawing operations performed on sheet material
- B65D1/02—Bottles or similar containers with necks or like restricted apertures, designed for pouring contents
- B65D1/0207—Bottles or similar containers with necks or like restricted apertures, designed for pouring contents characterised by material, e.g. composition, physical features
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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- Y10T428/00—Stock material or miscellaneous articles
- Y10T428/13—Hollow or container type article [e.g., tube, vase, etc.]
- Y10T428/1352—Polymer or resin containing [i.e., natural or synthetic]
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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- Y10T428/13—Hollow or container type article [e.g., tube, vase, etc.]
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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- Y10T428/00—Stock material or miscellaneous articles
- Y10T428/13—Hollow or container type article [e.g., tube, vase, etc.]
- Y10T428/1352—Polymer or resin containing [i.e., natural or synthetic]
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- the present invention is directed to the manufacture of plastic containers.
- the invention also relates to a container produced by means of this method.
- Plastic containers offer many advantages, e.g., by being lightweight, having a high capacity to withstand mechanical stresses (can be dropped without breaking also when filled), and by involving a low total energy consumption, especially if the containers are recycled. Recycling can be brought about, either by washing the containers and refilling them or by recovering the container material and reshaping it into new articles, such as containers.
- Plastic containers are well suited to be used from environment aspects, if they are made of plastics which do not contain any substances that are harmful to man, animals or the environment.
- PET polyethylene zerephthalate
- PET Polyethylene terephthelate
- orientation enhances the capacity of the material to withstand stretching as well as external stresses in the form of e.g. mechanical impacts.
- the amount of material required in the containers can be reduced, which of course contributes to cutting the overall costs for making containers or bottles of PET suited for containing e.g. beverages.
- elevated temperatures is here meant temperatures exceeding the glass transition temperature (Tg) of the material, which for current-grade amorphous material is about 80° C.
- Tg glass transition temperature
- the softening temperature is however about 10° C. higher.
- the tendency to shrink can however be eliminated in that the material is stretched at least 1.5 times in the stretching direction concerned.
- the properties of the material are so altered that if the material is maintained at an elevated temperature and at the same time is prevented from shrinking, the tendency of the material to shrink is reduced and at best completely eliminated in a temperature range whose upper limit is slightly below the temperature at which the material is heat-treated.
- the material is relieved of stresses resulting from the stretching of the material, which also undergoes a certain thermal crystallisation at a suitable temperature. To achieve such thermal crystillization, the temperature must exceed about 110° C.
- PET exhibits no tendency to shrink when heated, but at a temperature exceeding Tg by at least 30° C., the material starts to crystallise thermally. If the thermal crystallisation is allowed to proceed such that the material attains too high a degree of crystallinity, the material becomes brittle and hence unsuitable for use in containers.
- Containers of PET withstanding repeated heating to elevated temperatures are well suited for use several times.
- PET is in itself resistant to the detergents normally used for cleaning e.g. glass bottles, and so one of the problems to be solved to permit using PET containers in the making of reusable containers, such as returnable bottles, amounts to eliminating the tendency of stretched. PET to shrink when heated.
- One object of the present invention therefore is to provide a method for making containers of plastic, especially PET, which have a reduced tendency to shrink, such that the containers can be reused at least five times, as a rule at least 10 times.
- Another object of the invention is to provide a container of plastic which satisfies the above-indicated criteria regarding the tendency to shrink and reusability.
- the effect aimed at in the invention is achieved by selectively controlled stretching (elongation) of the material when forming the blank or preform into a container, which means that the temperature of the material of the blank immediately before the expansion of the blank into the container is conformed to the desired stretching (elongation) of the material.
- this is achieved by adjusting the temperature of the different portions of the blank material such that the shoulder of the container or bottle during the expansion is formed substantially only of material which in the blank is located at the upper conical part of the blank.
- FIG. 1 is an axial section of a preform
- FIG. 2 is an axial section of a container made from the preform.
- FIG. 1 shows a blank, also termed preform, of a substantially amorphous thermoplastic material, preferably PET, having a mouth portion 11, a substantially conical portion 12 extending from the mouth portion, a substantially cylindrical portion 13, and a region of material 14 which, when forming the blank 10 into a container 20, forms the bottom 24 of the container (see FIG. 2).
- the blank 10 has a central cavity 33 with a substantially cylindrical upper portion 18 and a substantially cylindrical lower portion l9, whose circumference is smaller than that of the upper portion 18.
- the transition between the upper and lower portions 18, 19 of the central cavity is a substantially conical transition portion 30.
- the cylindrical lower portion 19 is closed at its bottom, which is bulging outwards.
- the blank 10 thus serves as starting material in the making of the container 20, which especially is a reusable bottle for beverages.
- the mouth portion 11 has a threaded portion 16 and an annular gripping portion 17.
- the material forming the mouth portion 11 is designated A in FIG. 1.
- the conical portion 12 encloses the substantially cylindrical upper portion 18 of the central cavity of the blank 10.
- the conicity of the conical portion 12 results from an increase of the thickness of this portion towards the bottom of the blank 10.
- the material of the blank 10 forming the conical portion 12 is designated B in FIG. 1.
- the proximal part, with respect to the bottom of the blank 10, of the substantially cylindrical upper portion 18 of the cavity 33 of the blank 10 is defined by a wall having a substantially uniform wall thickness in all parts of the cylindrical portion 13 of the blank 10.
- the region of the substantially cylindrical portion 13 of the blank is marked C in FIG. 1.
- the region of material 14, which after reshaping of the blank 10 is intended to constitute the bottom of the container 20, has an increased wall thickness in the region of the transition portion 30 of the cavity of the blank 10, and maintains this wall thickness substantially throughout the entire region of the substantially cylindrical lower portion 19 of the cavity.
- the wall thickness of the blank 10 thereafter decreases in the closed bottom of the blank to have its minimum thickness in a central region of material 15 in the bottom of the blank 10.
- Reference D indicates the material of the blank 10 which in the resulting container 20 is reshaped to form part of the bottom of the container
- reference E indicates the material of the blank 10 which substantially retains its shape when forming the container 20.
- FIG. 2 shows an embodiment of a container 20 formed by expansion of the blank 10.
- A1, B1, C1, D1, E1 indicate portions of material corresponding to the portions designated A, B, C, D and E in FIG. 1.
- the container 20 has a mouth portion 21, a shoulder 22, a substantially cylindrical central portion 23, and a bottom 24.
- the mouth portion 21 has a shape which substantially agrees with that of the mouth portion 11 of the blank 10.
- the shoulder 22 is extended as compared with the length of the substantially conical portion 12 of the blank 10, the quotient of the axial length of the conical portion 12 of the blank 10 and the axial length of the cylindrical portion 13 of the blank 10 having values in the range 0.25-0.35, while the quotient of the axial length of the shoulder 22 and the axial length of the cylindrical portion 23 of the container 20 has values in the range 0.60-0.80.
- the material is expanded in the circumferential direction of the blank 10 in such a manner that, in the resulting container 20, the material in the region closest to the central cylindrical portion 23 of the container 20 has a total biaxial stretch in the range of about 7-15 times.
- the material which in the shoulder 22 is located adjacent the mouth portion 21 of the container 20 will have, when forming the blank 10 into the container 20, a total biaxial stretch in the range 2.5-3.6, preferably 2.7-3.4.
- the material In the region between the shoulder 22 and the closed bottom 24 of the container 20, i.e. in the substantially cylindrical central portion 23 of the container 20, the material has undergone, when forming the blank 10 into the container 20, a stretch (elongation) both axially and circumferentially, which means that the material will have a biaxial orientation corresponding to a total biaxial stretch in the range 7-15 times.
- the closed bottom 24 of the container 20 has a central bottom portion 25 corresponding to the central portion of material 15 at the bottom of the blank 10, which is designated E in FIG. 1. Further, the bottom 24 consists of material which in FIG. 1 pertains to the portion D.
- the central bottom portion 25 has substantially the same shape in the container 20 as in the blank 10. However, the material designated D in FIG. 1 has undergone, when forming the blank 10 into the container 20, a certain deformation without being stretched in this connection to such a high degree as to impair the capacity of the material to withstand shrinkage upon heating.
- reference numeral 28 designates the bearing surface of the container 20.
- the combination described above of oriented and non-oriented material of the container 20 is achieved by a forming process which is controlled to a great extent by the temperature of the substantially amorphous material in the blank 10 when starting the forming thereof into the container 20.
- the mouth portion 21 of the container 20 consists of material which has not undergone any stretching.
- the stretch is so small that it is of minor importance to the tendency of the container 20 to shrink when heated to the temperatures stated by way of introduction.
- the remaining parts of the container 20 consist of biaxially oriented material exhibiting stretch ratios well above the limit at which the tendency of the material to shrink can be eliminated by temperature stabilisation.
- thermoplastic materials can be used, provided the forming of the blank into the container can be brought about in line with the method of the invention.
- plastic materials are polyethylene naphthalate (PEN), polyacrylnitrile (PAN) and polyamide plastic (PA).
- PEN polyethylene naphthalate
- PAN polyacrylnitrile
- PA polyamide plastic
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